The mainstream church, battered by declining numbers
and a failure to defiantly condemn the crimes and
cruelty of the corporate state, as well as a refusal to
vigorously attack the charlatans of the Christian
right, whose misuse of the Gospel to champion
unfettered capitalism, bigotry and imperialism is
heretical, has become a marginal force in the life of
most Americans, especially the young.

The mainstream church, battered by declining numbers
and a failure to defiantly condemn the crimes and
cruelty of the corporate state, as well as a refusal to
vigorously attack the charlatans of the Christian
right, whose misuse of the Gospel to champion
unfettered capitalism, bigotry and imperialism is
heretical, has become a marginal force in the life of
most Americans, especially the young.